Yesterday we had the privilege of hosting White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios at the Meridian International Center to chat about the AI Action Plan - a great opportunity to dig deeper into how the US will engage with allies and international community on AI governance and development

I'm so pleased to be joining the Meridian International Center to build out high-impact programming and contribute to international readiness to create smart tech policy. Technology is borderless, and the conversations we have about its use and governance should be too! meridian.org/news/meridia...

Fue un placer dar la apertura de nuestra conferencia sobre el desarrollo de la IA hoy en la Universidad Católica del Uruguay! Estamos hablando como el país y la región puede usar la tecnología, evitar riesgos, y garantizar que los beneficios lleguen a toda la sociedad

Such a succinct way to say this. I try to get at this constantly - I don't want to generate a first draft of something because the ugly first draft is where I figure out what I really think. To cede that process to AI is to lose access to any novel insights or approaches I could have produced

This post piqued my interest so I hunted down the report referenced in this episode that National Institute for Defense Studies in Japan published on this topic - very good stuff! www.nids.mod.go.jp/publication/...

Enjoyed this post unpacking why openness is so essential in AI, and considering how we get there. We wholeheartedly share the emphasis on "local solutions for local contexts", which we talked about in our whitepaper on AI ecosystem growth in the Global South!

The sky is not falling and neither is our ferocious appetite for compute - I tried to cut through the hype in this #NeedToKnow conversation about DeepSeek, check it out!

It was a privilege to co-author a section of this report with a former EU MP who championed protections for the vulnerable online during her time in office. Check it out for our thoughts on how EU actions and priorities could affect the transatlantic relationship

We take games very seriously at the Science and Technology Innovation Program! Thanks for doing an interview with the Serious Games Initiative, and I think you also came to our arcade party celebrating SGI's 20 years? We're always ready to wonk out on complex topics via approachable platforms!!

Today, we're unpacking what the executive order on financial innovation will do for the US crypto landscape, with Wilson trustee, NYU senior lecturer, and author Alan Rechtschaffen - virtual only at 3 PM Eastern, register to join! www.wilsoncenter.org/event/brief-...

Very excited to spin our Tech Lab program back up in 2025 with our first cohort of the year going through our Advanced AI Lab - it's such a privilege to help train government staff to understand more of the nuance and technical side of AI, especially as we look to implement more in gov't practice

We're feeling sunny over @wilsoncenter.org - check out "Rays of Optimism" to read what gives us hope, written by programs across the center. Check it out to learn why I'm excited about the promise of accelerating scientific discovery through AI implementation! www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/...

just finished @annelamott.bsky.social's "Bird by Bird" and am floored at how deeply her advice resonates. It's so much more than advice on writing fiction, it's how to be at home with yourself in a way that lets you find the important things only you can say, then get it out there. Highly recommend!

This in @axios.com AI newsletter today has got me in the mood to re-read 17776. If you love tech, speculative fiction, or the way the internet used to be home to amazing things tucked into the strangest corners, and you HAVEN'T read it, you really ought to: www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

I enjoyed Suzanne Nossel's @latimes.com op-ed's global focus on the Meta decision to eliminate content moderation, well worth a read to start thinking about the impact on countries not well-represented by moderators but also in danger of violence stemming from speech: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Plunging headlong into 2025 already, and this topic is priority #1 for me this year - ensuring all communities & nations benefit from AI development requires broadening the decision-making table, and putting AI skills & inputs within reach no matter where or who you are. See our whitepaper for more!

Great report, great writeup in MIT Tech Review - major questions of control, of permissions, of representation in datasets. These are questions we should be discussing publicly, and making sure diverse stakeholders from top to bottom understand the trade-offs and possible protections

NZ is in the same forget-relearn cycle every gov't is in with scientific research. Lucrative research will be funded by the market, but ground-shifting breakthroughs come unexpectedly from elsewhere. Government's most effective role is to fund the basic science we need that the market won't chase

Another thoughtful read from @sayash.bsky.social & @randomwalker.bsky.social that's well worth your time - is generative AI really the destabilizer it was expected to be?

The impermanence of pretty much everything has me thinking/worrying about this question of durable storage and archives a lot, really good piece

Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists. What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers. My latest:

We hosted a roundtable of Global South thinkers back in September to talk about opportunities and obstacles with AI ecosystem development. I'm excited to say the whitepaper with topline takeaways from that discussion is now available! www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/...

Joining @wilsoncenter.org colleagues from our Global Europe Program tomorrow to talk about what we might expect from the new EU Commission and how it will impact the transatlantic relationship, RSVP to join in person or virtually: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/brusse...

Very cool, and a tracker that fills a definite gap!

I love reads like this that reveal how people pull off the tech things we take for granted - super interesting

Appreciated this thread for providing a lot of context I was lacking in the ROK chaos, I recommend it if you are also feeling lost

Wondering how long they'll keep this in place - China stands to hurt themselves with this move. They're in a better position to weather it but the complexities of the impact of this ban will be wild www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/w...

Delighted to be in Ottawa to speak at @wilsoncenter.org Canada Institute's seminar for Canadian officials to hear what's new in Washington DC as the new government is seated in January

🔭🧪🧬 Amazing DeepMind longread on how AI advances science by tackling scale/complexity bottlenecks: processing literature, enhancing data quality, simulations modeling complex systems, and exploring solution spaces that exceed human cognitive limits. www.aipolicyperspectives.com/p/a-new-gold...

Aligned with this take from the Singaporean dep sec: "a 'helping-one-another mindset is important' between countries when it comes to AI safety, including with 'developing countries which may not have the full resources' to study it" apnews.com/article/ai-s...

Found on Twitter and must celebrate here too: Sometimes government people don't like doing something that isn't expressly allowed, even if it is not expressly disallowed. For this reason and so many more, this memo is way more important than you'd think www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing...

I talk about this constantly in person so wanted to post it here as well - if you're thinking about how government can adequately address emerging tech through policy, you should take a look at this @eclac.bsky.social paper on the regulatory sandbox approach: repositorio.cepal.org/server/api/c...

Read Cristina Rivera Garza's Taiga Syndrome last night and discovered the playlist at the back at the end - wish I had known to listen to it while I read! Highly recommend, an ethereal and surreal read, and layer her playlist on top of your experience

It's important that @undp.bsky.social is focusing on AI's human impacts in the next Human Development Report - I've learned a lot about concerns other countries have as a result of discussions they're holding as the report comes together. emphasis on key definitions & harms is also serving them well

@maggiecaroline.bsky.social is a fellow with my program, a behemoth in natsec circles, and an eternal champion for women achieving the impossible - go to her happy hour tomorrow night if you like meeting very smart, very passionate people

Having pieces like this surfaced organically was and is the best thing about social media, and something that's increasingly less common. What a beautiful and thought-provoking read

These are the risks we must deal with via policy decisions here and now, and they have real and massive consequences - long-term safety advocates need to make space for these conversations

If you're intellectually curious & interested in exploring the world of tech policy, apply to intern with the Science and Technology Innovation Program @thewilsoncenter.bsky.social! 🗓 Application Deadline: November 25 💡 Learn more here: bit.ly/43uhicb ✅ Apply here: bit.ly/4fc3KJj

Looking forward to this webinar on AI and geopolitics that @thewilsoncenter.bsky.social's STIP is cohosting with Pacific Council - register to tune in at noon Eastern tomorrow! www.pacificcouncil.org/activities/f...